Raoul Dufy
1877-1953
French
Fauvist Painter
and Designer
The name Fauves is French for "Wild Beasts"
Artistically and Stylistically Influenced by the following Painters and
Art Movements -
Matisse,
Georges Braque ,
Pointillism
and
Post-Impressionism
Raoul Dufy Inspirational Art Quotations
A painted landscape is not nature anyway. Art is a creation. -- Raoul
Duffy Quote
I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so
many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives. -- Raoul
Duffy Quote
My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly. -- Raoul Duffy Quote
The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is
presented. -- Raoul Duffy Quote
The Fauves
The Fauvist movement was the high-spirited stepchild
of pointillism
and
impressionism.
The exuberant 20th-century art movement was led by
Henri Matisse.
The Fauves
emphasized vivid colors, hearty brushstrokes and simplified forms. The
subject matter of the Fauve painters is generally lighthearted. They
favored seascapes, the French countryside, portraits, nudes, and
domestic interiors. The Fauve palette is what set them apart. Fauvists
used paint directly from the tube and never mixed their colors. They
favored deep reds, oranges, and bright greens. The Fauve colors seemed
intense and tasteless, even offensive to art critics of the time.
Matisse
stated
"In art, truth and
reality begin when one no longer understands what one is doing or what
one knows, and when there remains an energy that is all the stronger for
being constrained, controlled and compressed"
This new style of paintings was a reflection of the transformation that
was taking place in Europe, the change from the restrictive Victorian
age to a more enlightened, tolerant society.
Raoul Dufy
asserted,
"I don't
follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props
to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives."
When the Fauvists held their first exhibit, the daring forms and vivid colors outraged the Paris art world. Critics stormed out and threw glasses of wine at some of the paintings. One critic, Marcel Dupree, was so aghast at the Fauvist paintings he vomited outside the gallery and took to his bed for several weeks.
Key Descriptive Words
and Phrases associated with
Spanish Baroque Painting
- religious tensions,
Roman Catholic Church,
Counter Reformation,
doctrinally correct art,
emotionally appealing,
revolutionary
technique, individual genius,
polychrome religious
sculptures, extreme realism,
inward spirituality, dark
palettes, tenebrosi,
lyricism, Churrigueresque
style, play of light and
shade effects,
sumptuousness, Transparent
in Toledo cathedral,
dramatic, selective
illumination, Caravaggio
scientific advances,
printing press, Age of
Enlightenment, Economic
growth, "the style of
absolutism", colossal
sculptures, Sense of
movement, energy, Strong
contrasts of light and
shadow, grandeur, dramatic
use of light and shadow ☼☼☼☼☼
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